I’m not even going to post a link, but I’m having difficulty determining whether it is appropriate for a chain of acute care clinics … in Florida … to be advertising how it will provide “stronger” treatment for painful conditions and “emergency pain relief” for patients who don’t want to wait in emergency departments.

currently federal employees will remain in the FEHB (federal employees health benefits) so the senator is somewhat disingenuous. the letter from nteu expresses opposition to a proposed bill, it does not ask for an exemption because there is no requirement that employees/retirees go into the exchanges. nowhere in the nteu letter is the word “exemption” mentioned.

No, they are “EXEMPT” from following the law as it was written. Take off the blinders.
Go here…click every link and read. The law did not make the provisions needed and it was their fault. So, again, do as they say (or legislate)not as they do. It’s unacceptable to me that I must comply or go to jail and they who represent me get special treatment.

…and a 225-pound Arizona patient who had an infection caused by flesh-eating bacteria and couldn’t be transported by a responding helicopter

I’m 6’4″ and 222 pounds, the same weight I was when I played college basketball (I was the “little guy” on the team). I’m surprised that emergency air transport wouldn’t be able to handle someone just three pounds heavier than me — I’m hardly obese.

Coming into contact with the sap of giant hogweed, followed by exposure to sunlight, can produce painful, burning blisters, also known as photo-dermatitis. Hogweed stems contain a large amount of juice that squirts out when stems are broken or cut. Contact with the toxic sap usually happens when people cut down hogweed plants without taking precautions.”